Eat the apple

Description:

Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating, and ultimately redemptive, Young's story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays bare the absurdism of 21st-century war, the manned-up vulnerability of those on the front lines, and the true, if often misguided, motivations that drove a young man to a life at war.

subjects: Military life,  United States. Marine Corps,  United States,  American Personal narratives,  Iraq War, 2003-2011,  Marines,  Biography,  United states, marine corps, biography,  Iraq war, 2003-2011, personal narratives,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Military,  Personal Memoirs,  Southern California,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

People: Matt Young (1986-)

Places: United States,  Southern California